What, then, does a feminist critique of secularism and its imperial geopolitics look like? What are the terms in which…
Volatile signs: Feminism, secularism, political economy
genealogy
Who do you want me to be?
A couple years ago, while watching television and rocking a restless infant to sleep, an advertisement for the website ancestry.com…
Radical Secularization?
In a discussion in the German press about the displacement of continental philosophy in Europe by the increasingly triumphant advance…
The Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy (and what you need to read to understand it)
Graeme Wood’s “What ISIS Really Wants,” published in The Atlantic in February 2015, sparked a massive debate. The controversy concerns…
Conference: Toward a Critique of Secular Reason?
On December 10-11, 2014, the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven) will host the international conference Towards a Critique of Secular…
Mindful love: On Thomas Pfau’s critical appropriation of Thomist moral theory
Thomas Pfau’s book Minding the Modern is a book of immense scope. About half the work (parts II and III) consists…
History without hermeneutics: Brad Gregory’s unintended modernity
I would like to draw attention to three aspects of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, a book whose courage and…
Three dots and a dash
“It resists classification…” Language is a funny thing. Take my epigraph, for example: three words from the fourth paragraph of…
Traditional but not religious
The first thing that strikes you when looking at Frequencies is the scope of the project and the breadth of…
Christian genealogies of religious freedom
As a historian of religion, much of my recent work has focused on tracing the genealogy of what we call…